From Wisconsin Public Radio:
Federal authorities are investigating a former state conservation warden for killing a wolf last month in northern Wisconsin.
Chief Deputy Andy Runice with the Bayfield County Sheriff’s Office said authorities received a call around 2 a.m. on Dec. 25 from Pat Quaintance, who said he had shot a collared wolf at his home in Bayfield.
From The Wildlife Society:
A pack near Anchorage has likely killed three wolverines in the past few years
From The Times of India:
Kanpur: Indian Wolf has been sighted after a gap of more than two decades at the National Chambal Sanctuary at Etawah-Agra border. The wolf has been captured in a camera trap.
From RFD TV:
Colorado ranchers can breathe a short sigh of relief when it comes to protecting their livestock.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced it will not release any more gray wolves until the end of this year in December. This comes as state lawmakers push the governor to address producer concerns over the recent release of ten wolves.
It was the first step in a reintroduction plan approved by voters in 2020.
From The Daily Montanan:
The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department says that hunting and trapping wolves is fine. But, it doesn’t have the resources to translocate — or move — them to another state.
In May 2023, Jeff Davis, Colorado’s Director of Parks and Wildlife, sent a request to Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington, seeking 30 to 50 wolves during the course of “several years,” because voters there had passed Proposition 114, which created a wolf re-introduction plan for the state.
From CBS News:
f you’ve been keeping up with the coverage on wolf reintroduction in Colorado, you already know Don Gittleson, the rancher near Walden who has been dealing with wolves coming after his livestock even before wolves were dropped in the state late last year.
Now that the new wolves are here, and the new rules too, Gittleson is looking for guidance from Colorado Parks and Wildlife as to how he can follow the rules while utilizing his rights recently published. The 10(j) rule (which we have extensively covered here) allows for lethal control of an experimental population of otherwise endangered animals (this is a simplification, but basically if the wolves make a habit of killing livestock, those wolves can be killed to stop the repeated bad behavior.)
From Washington Policy Center:
Gray wolf management is at the center of two more bills introduced this legislative session. Washington state is home to at least 216 gray wolves in 37 recognized packs – most of which call Northeast Washington home.
House Bill 2423 – relating to gray wolf management – and House Bill 2424 – relating to updating cooperative agreements between the state and federally recognized tribes for the successful collaborative management of Washington’s wildlife resources – emphasize the need for new approaches to gray wolf management. Locals dealing with the gray wolf population say the current management approaches are not working and leave the people most effected by the presence of the predators with little recourse to care for their children and livestock.
From Cowboy State Daily:
When wolves were first reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the mid-1990s, there were about 20,000 elk in the park’s northern herd. Now there are roughly 8,000.
Meanwhile, the opposite has happened with bison in the area with their numbers ballooning from about 500 to roughly 4,460.
And accordingly, wolves have started to eat more bison. They frequently scavenge carcasses, but also sometimes are daring enough to hunt the huge, lumbering beasts.
From PBS Wisconsin:
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans sent a bill to Gov. Tony Evers on Jan. 25 that would mandate state wildlife managers set a cap on the state’s wolf population, forcing the governor to choose between pleasing conservationists who want to protect the creatures and farmers who say wolves are destroying their livestock.
The Assembly passed the bill on a voice vote with no debate. The Senate approved it in October. Evers will have to decide whether to sign it into law or veto it. His spokesperson, Britt Cudaback, didn’t immediately respond to a message asking where Evers stands on the proposal.
From Vail Daily:
Sen. Dylan Roberts and House Speaker Julie McCluskie sent a letter to the governor and the directors of Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the Colorado Department of Natural Resources on Jan. 22 requesting that the agency immediately draft a rule to determine when wolves are considered to be “chronically depredating.” The letter specifically references a rancher in Jackson County who has been struggling with the wolves killing and injuring his livestock.
The International Wolf Center advances the survival of wolf populations by teaching about wolves, their relationship to wildlands and the human role in their future.